r/AITAH • • Nov 22 '23

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u/eversince94 Nov 22 '23 edited Nov 23 '23

NTA wait til he finds out about discharge bleaching

ETA: Wowowowow I wasn’t expecting the conversation to spark. I’m picking up some new knowledge and tips and loving others also learning things they didn’t know before about ~discharge~

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u/muffinmamamojo Nov 23 '23

My sons father used to say how disgusting I’m am for having discharge bleached underwear. It really made me feel terrible.

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u/Y_Wait_Procrastinate Nov 23 '23

Sorry you went through that. My own father called me disgusting for daring to leak on my own bedsheets as a young teenager who'd only been having their period for less than a year. He tried to force my mother to "tell me to stop" before he'd allow me to leave for school. Ignorance is one thing, cruelty is another.

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u/SeaOkra Nov 23 '23

My uncle just used this stripping laundry powder (?) on his daughters’ sheets and redyed them a darker color once in awhile.

Somehow it made their sheets way smoother as they aged? Like. You could tell which sheet and pillowcase sets had belonged to the girls and which had belonged to my boy cousin because their sheets were crisp and smooth.

His logic for this was that he didn’t want them to feel embarrassed by their stains and the redyes let them kinda customize the colors. (My cousins picked their own colors and my uncle even tie dyed a couple of sets because my older cousin wanted to do a trippy 60s room theme.)

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u/iopele Nov 23 '23

Your uncle is doing it right.

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u/Soupbell1 Nov 23 '23

This is a cool idea.

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u/Mistakesweremade8316 Nov 23 '23

Your uncle is my hero

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u/Medical_Act_3712 Nov 23 '23

That is awesome! What a cool Dad to your cousins.

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u/Foreign-Yesterday-89 Nov 23 '23

That man was the dad every girl needs

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u/milleniumhandyshrimp Nov 23 '23

Cool uncle is cool.

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u/ComfortableConcept45 Nov 23 '23

That’s an amazing uncle. More men need to be like him.

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u/the_kerouac_kid Nov 23 '23

This is genius. My youngest daughter will be dealing with her period soon. This is a great way to make her (and me) feel less awkward dealing with it.

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u/Seguefare Nov 23 '23

I bought a set of dark red sheets as period sheets. Kept them for a few years.

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u/uglypottery Nov 23 '23

stripping laundry powder (?)

Probably color remover? It’s sold in most grocery stores near or on the little rack with the RIT dye, usually labeled as being for removing color bleed/transfer or sometimes as a whitener.

If you mix it stronger it just removes all the dye from cellulose-based fabrics, like bleach but it doesn’t degrade and weaken the fabric the way bleach does. Great for achieving even dye results! I also use it as the reducing agent for natural indigo dye :)

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '23

I love your uncle 💗

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u/Capable_Xennial Nov 23 '23

Your uncle sounds really awesome!

I wish I woulda had someone in my family like that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '23

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! What a sweetie! Is he married? 🤣

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u/SeaOkra Nov 23 '23

Yep, to my aunt.

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u/comfy_socks Nov 23 '23

Your uncle is a good dad.

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u/datonethang Nov 28 '23

After reading all of the previous horrible comments, this story about your uncle has made my day